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- 1From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-ReviewedWintertime warming of Alaskan soils may up the release of carbon dioxide from soil respiration, bolstering fears that tundra could have positive-feedback effects on global warming. Susan Natali and her team at the...
- 2From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-ReviewedResearchers and the heads of universities in Britain continue to urge against extreme cuts to government funding of science. The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee wrote to science minister David Willetts...
- 3From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-ReviewedWater plays a first-order role in basal sliding of glaciers and ice sheets and is often a key constituent of accelerated glacier motion (1-4). Subglacial water is known to occupy systems of cavities and conduits at the...
- 4From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-Reviewed* Gabriela Chavarria, top science adviser to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, on the agency's scientific direction. go.nature.com/pjXCsl...
- 5From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-ReviewedIt is sentencing day at Washtenaw County Courthouse, a drab structure of stained grey stone and tinted glass a few blocks from the main campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Judge Elizabeth Pollard Hines...
- 6From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-ReviewedRussia will spend an extra 2 billion roubles (US$64 million) in the next three years on geological research in the Arctic Ocean, said Yuri Trutnev, the country's minister for natural resources, on 21 September. Russia...
- 7From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-Reviewed* Obama's green team in hiring probe go.nature.com/6rjFn4 * Can science help the millennium development goals succeed? go.nature.com/2CkGmt * Game over for British science? go.nature.com/rl2Crt...
- 8From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-ReviewedMuch Ado About (Practically) Nothing: A History of the Noble Gases David E. Fisher Oxford Univ. Press 288 pp. $24.95, 15.99 [pounds sterling] (2010). Noble gases are so called because, like nobility, they do no...
- 9From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-ReviewedAsymmetric cell divisions are essential for the development of multicellular organisms. To proceed, they require an initially symmetric cell to polarize (1). In Caenorhabditis elegans zygotes, anteroposterior...
- 10From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-ReviewedAntibodies are usually said to have two main features: highly specific recognition of their target antigenic determinant, or epitope, and the ability of each of their two arms to bind to a copy of the same epitope. For...
- 11From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-ReviewedAccusations of plagiarism greeted a report on the safety of genetically modified (GM) crops, released last week by India's top six science academies. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh requested the report after placing...
- 12From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-ReviewedKerri Smith Nature 466 (suppl.), S15-S18 (26 August 2010) This Outlook article stated that Addex Pharmaceuticals has mGluR5 modulators in phase II trials for anxiety and depression. The company says that its only...
- 13From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-ReviewedBefore the rise of fascism in the 1930s, Germany was a world leader in science--to the point that researchers across the globe had to learn German to follow the major scientific literature. The Germany that emerged from...
- 14From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-ReviewedClaims for patents in clean energy technologies such as wind, photovoltaics and geothermal more than doubled from 1997 to 2006, according to a global analysis published on 30 September. Patent activity related to...
- 15From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-ReviewedLike many other Brazilians, the nation's scientists are hoping that the presidential elections of 3 October will bring as little change as possible. After nearly a decade of solid support for science from President Luiz...
- 16From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-ReviewedTen years ago, jokes about science were as elusive as the Higgs boson. Times are changing. From fresh-faced wannabes to headline acts, more comedians are finding humour in the scientific endeavour. Add in the Ig Nobel...
- 17From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-ReviewedThe rigour and integrity of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification process is much greater than Jennifer Jacquet and colleagues suggest (Nature 467, 28-29; 2010). The certification process uses...
- 18From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-ReviewedAfter a widespread faculty strike in Pakistan's universities, the federal government agreed on 23 September to raise its higher-education budget by 5.8 billion Pakistani rupees (US$67 million) to provide teachers with a...
- 19From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-ReviewedThis week is Right to Know Week in Canada, intended to acknowledge and celebrate our freedom-of-information laws. Some 40 other countries have a Right to Know Day, but we Canadians get a whole week. And you know what?...
- 20From: Nature. (Vol. 467, Issue 7315) Peer-ReviewedIt ought to be a match made in heaven. Two telescopes--one European, one American--with similar research objectives and a combined price tag of more than US$2 billion are both looking for support from funding agencies...